They are from our planet!!! The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon

They’re an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.

The 12-week-old macaque – who was abandoned by his mother – was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province.

ove but he seemed spiritless – until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon.

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The macaque nestles his head against his feathered friend

The blossoming relationship helped to revive the macaque who has developed a new lease of life, say staff at the sanctuary.

Now the unlikely duo are never far from each other’s side, but they aren’t the only ones to strike up an unusual friendship.

Earlier this year a pig adopted a tiger cub and raised him along with her piglets because his mother couldn’t feed him.

And in 2005 a baby deer named Mi-Lu befriended lurcher Geoffrey at the Knowsley Animal Park in Merseyside after she was rejected by her mother.

“no more putting things on hold”

That is the phrase of the week…

If you want something bad enough, go get it. That’s all I have thought off all day and pretty much all week. It’s affirmed every second with little tiny events that i was oblivious too. Little decisions that make great big changes in other people’s lives…it’s scary but powerful. Cause and effect….no more holding back or putting things on hold. It’s time for discipline. Made some big decisions today that I should have made a long time ago.

Buddhist daily encouragement says today: “but your faith alone will determine all these things. A sword will be useless in the hands of a coward. The mighty sword of the lotus sutra must be wielded by one courageous in faith. Then one will be as strong as a demon armed with an iron staff.”

The Company We Keep.

With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, a Farmer Looks to Machines

James Rajotte for The New York Times

Jim Bittner of Singer Farms in Appleton, N.Y., cut down 25 acres of cherry trees, some of them 30 years old, because he was not sure of finding enough migrant workers to harvest the crop. There will be no harvest from the cleared fields until at least 2011.

“We always assumed we could find the labor we would need,” said Mr. Bittner, who has managed Singer Farms since 1991. “We’re not making that assumption anymore.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/nyregion/27crops.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Chasing Utopia, Family Imagines No Possessions

“the ideals, the peace and love, the giving and freedom.”

Interesting principles…lets see how they do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/us/17texas.html?ex=1211860800&en=9853d0489a5e8c70&ei=5070

Oberhausen,Germany race-

Pipe comes in 5th place overall!! and Dad comes in 2nd in his age category! weeehaaa!!!!

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82

He definately shaped the way I see art…he dared to go beyond the box…along with Cage, PollocK, De Kooning….

Cage meant that people had come to see, through Mr. Rauschenberg’s efforts, not just that anything, including junk on the street, could be the stuff of art (this wasn’t itself new), but that it could be the stuff of an art aspiring to be beautiful — that there was a potential poetics even in consumer glut, which Mr. Rauschenberg celebrated. “I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly,” he once said, “because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.”

New York Times article on Rauschenberg

*Origami Love*

Origami Love branches out!

Birdie birthdays at H unit-

I have chosen 1 person per month from Death Row in Oklahoma City (1 month the oldest person, 1 month the youngest). The cards will only contain drawings and 1 origami…some of them don’t speak English or can’t read.

May 21- Kenneth Hogan

June 22- David Magnan

July 20- Ricky Malone

August 5- Michael Delozier

September 26- Michael Selsor

October 4- Carlos

November 1- Anthony Sanchez

December 19- Richard Rojein

January 19- Darwin D. Brown

——————————2 executions scheduled———

Terry Lyn Short – execution- June 17,2008. We’re to late for his b day 22 Aug 1960- ill send a silent origami.

23 May 65 Kevin Young – ———–Date requested —

Execution Process

Method of Execution: Lethal Injection

Drugs used:
Sodium Thiopental – causes unconsciousness
Vecuronium Bromide – stops respiration
Potassium Chloride – stops heart

Two intravenous lines are inserted, one in each arm. The drugs are injected by hand held syringes simultaneously into the two intravenous lines. The sequence is in the order that the drugs are listed above. Three executioners are utilized, with each one injecting one of the drugs.

MusArt Sunday

Tommy & dante- on a super fun inspiro artsy fartsy sunday…

artin’

jammin’

chillin’

then some comedy with some cool katz- Kevin and MerStella-

Tom with Guitar – Part 3.